Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis, said Pordenone, painted, at first between 1530 and 1532 and then later in 1535, frescoes in the Basilica of Santa Maria di Campagna in Piacenza.
On the first occasion he painted the lantern, the eight sides of the dome, the friezes ogives, the frieze above the arcades and the Chapel of Santa Caterina; then he painted the Chapel of the Magi. The famous painter, almost ruthless in the face of classical severity, reaching a very high level of expression, used very bright colours.
In the dome we find, the Eternal Father, the angels, the Prophets and Sibyls and in the chapel of Santa Caterina, the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine and in the Chapel of the Magi the History of childhood of Christ.
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